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Digital Commons: Open Technologies Bringing Value to Citizens at a Grand Scale

The Digital Commons concept has steadily grown in significance, permeating civil society conversations and policy dialogues. Especially after French government took the role of its champion. OpenForum Europe engages in […]

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New OSOR report about Open Source in the French public sector

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Public sector software catalogues: work in progress

This article was originally published on the European Commission’s Open Source Observatory.  Software catalogues make public procurement easier by helping people find software and by presenting, as much as possible, […]

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Join the OFE team as a Policy Analyst

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OSS and Cybersecurity beyond the CRA

As governments are moving to regulate the software market, the old tools of product liability regulation from the non-digital world are in need of an update, in order to realise […]

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Workshop on policy and strategy of open souce in public administrations

Join the webinar on Tuesday 4 May, from 2pm to 4pm CET organised by the European Commission’s Open Source Observatory on “Policy & Strategy Aspects of OSS in Public Administration”. […]

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Gaël Blondelle nominated by OFE as a candidate to the OSI Board of Directors

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The OFE Community Mourns the Loss of Co-Founder Basil Cousins

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing away of OpenForum Europe co-founder, Basil Cousins, after a very long illness. He died peacefully at home with all his […]

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OFE Team @ FOSDEM 2023

Make sure you catch OFE at FOSDEM 2023!  The Coming EU Standard-Essential Patents regulation In early 2023, the European Commission will publish its proposal for a regulation on Standard-Essential Patents […]

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